I would like the option of having burrows be active or inactive. I mostly use the burrow option right now to pull all my dwarfs inside when attacked. Once the attack is over I would like a one button deactivate rather than unassigning all 93 dwarves from the burrow.
oh man, I am totally going to make your day here: you can already do this, and it's really easy. You want to use
Alerts rather than assigning/unassigning all of your dwarves to the burrow one at a time.
1. Define and name a burrow, call it something appropriate like "Inside"
2. Go to the (M)ilitary screen, then to (A)lerts, then press (c) to "Add alert".
3. (N)ame alert and call it something appropriate, like "PANIC!".
4. Press the -> arrow key to move the selector over to the far right-side "Burrows" column, and highlight your "Inside" burrow. This tells it that you want all your civilians to stay inside that burrow when the selected Alert is activated.
5. Now Press <- arrow to move back to the far left "Alerts" column, select your "PANIC!" alert, and press Enter. This should move the green [CIV] indicator to this alert, activating it.
Now sit back and watch as all your civilians go to the burrow. Your military dwarves will not, so use separate alerts or Station commands to get them to do something different, if you like.
Beats assigning 90 dwarves one by one, eh? When you're done, just move the [CIV] alert back to "Inactive" and everyone will resume business as normal.
--nomad_delta